Comments on: 8 Web Apps You Should Look at Before Rolling Your Own

By: Jaybill McCarthy

Jaybill McCarthy — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:52:33 +0000

@Scott D – Thanks for writing! Both Jeff’s site (http://mrjeffmccarthy.com) and this one use Wordpress, actually. They both use a fair number of plugins and customized themes.

You can actually have several Wordpress blogs in the same database, you just use different table prefixes on install. There’s also a multi-blog version of Wordpress called WordpressMu: http://mu.wordpress.org/

By: Scott D

Scott D — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:53:44 +0000

BTW, very good list! (I would add spry to the list.)

By: Scott D

Scott D — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:50:09 +0000

OK, I found your site after going to your brothers site. (you made that from scratch I think? nice…) and you may have an answer for my problem. I have been a movabletype user for years and even with the latest version, I am still leaning towards WordPress. They both work great, but here is my problem: WP takes a database for every blog where MT uses just one. AND – I know how to create templates for MT and I am not sure how easy this is to do within WP. After weighing everything else, WP wins for a blogging platform.

What do you think?

By: Kurt Ward

Kurt Ward — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:36:13 +0000

Trac has an amazing set of plugins… even XML-RPC!

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:51:09 +0000

I love the picture ;-)

I’ll give trac, magneto and gallery a test straight away…